Done!

So I just finished the novel.

Now what?

Dare I actually turn on the TV?

I’m actually a bit teary eyed right now. Yes I know I’ll have to do more edits when I get feedback from readers, but it still feels like a kind of ending. Off she’ll go into the world, and I expect her to come back bruised and battered, but not dead, I hope.

Now, I’m going to eat dinner, send off some emails, and curl up in a ball beside the TV 🙂 I have no idea what I’m going to do tomorrow.

Also… My advice, now: leave it alone. Resist, even, the temptation to start fiddling when even the first Beta read comes back. Let a number of them, maybe even all of them come back before you go back to it.

Instead, start thinking about your sophomore effort. Will there be a sequel, or do you have another book in mind? I’d start working on that, whatever it is.

Good advice that I plan to take. I think I’ll outline a rough sketch of the sequel, but I’ve got another idea in the works which is a Mongolian & wuxia inspired sword and sorcery. So far its just a seed in the brain. I think I’ll start worldbuilding shortly.